THE ALASKA BOUNDARY

Evening Star, Issue 12027, 27 October 1903, Page 6

THE ALASKA BOUNDARY

SIR W. LAURIER AMAZED. CANADA'S RESTRICTED POWERS. ■» Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, October 26. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier, replying in the Dominion House of Commons to Opposition criticisms on the Alaskan boundary award, said that he would not believe until Lord Ahverstone-'s reasoned opinion vas received that Canada's interests had no* been sacrificed. The Lynn Canal decision was open to argument, but he was at a loss to understand the, Portland Channel Cecision. "So long," he said, "as Canada » a dependency of the Crown the present, powers are insufficient. We must ask the Motherland for an extension to enable ns to deal with similar questions in future m our own fashion according to the best Egttc we have," He said he often regretted that Canada lay alongside a grasping, powerful nation like the United States; also thai Canada lacked treaty-making power.

A NEWSPAPER COMMENT

MR- CHASiBERLAESPS POLICY

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SYDNEY, October 27 (Received October 27, at 9.31 a.m.)

The ' Daily Telegraph' says that no more crushing criticism than Sir W. Lamier's •declaration that Canada most ask for sucn an extension of powers as to enable her to deal with questions to the award cotild have been passed on Air Chamberlain's scheme for linVrog up the Empire. It comes at a mast opportune time, and just when Mr Chamberlain a campaign was in fall bkist, and may eonndently be expected to have a sharp, disenchanting effect among those people of Britain who seem to have become accustmoeu to believing that anything is just bcause Mr Chamberlain asserts or expects it.